Hope you’ve all had a good week. We’ve been teased with some lovely warm sunny days, only for it to turn cold again! Mind you it was unseasonally warm, so I guess we’re just back to normal March weather. Since having my cat Lottie she rarely goes out, although I can’t blame her with the …
The letter U choice for my animal alphabet challenge was quite limited. There are Umbrella birds believe it or not, who have feathers shaped like an umbrella on the top of their heads. However after all the rain we’ve had in the UK, I reckon we’ve seen enough umbrellas! So I chose sea urchins to paint. Urchins come …
I’ve painted owls before so decided to paint an otter for my letter O animal. This time I experimented with some hand made paper, which I made years ago and discovered recently during a tidy up! It has a great texture and I painted it with acrylics, as I’m not sure it would have survived very wet paint! The …
The choice was between a kiwi, kangaroo, koala and kudu. Koala won the day, as they are of course incredibly cute animals! This time I painted the background using acrylics on 270gsm brown paper, rather than painting white paper a dark colour. I think it works quite well and I’ve painted more leaves on the acetate …
My letter J art challenge results ended up having a cat theme, as mentioned in my earlier post. Of course the big cat is a Jaguar. It most closely resembles the leopard physically, although it is usually larger and of sturdier build and its behavioural and habitat characteristics are closer to those of the tiger. The …
I can’t believe it’s been 2 months since I started this alphabet challenge. The good thing is I am still very much enjoying it! There were not too many choices for the letter I and I’ve gone for an Iguana ACEO and an Irish Setter dog SFA painting (small format art, as explained in last …
Thank you to everyone that voted in my alphabet challenge and giraffe won the day with gazelle getting some votes too. However I was on a roll this week, so ended up painting a gorilla too! Here they are with all the animals painted with glass paint, as usual. I don’t think I’ve got the giraffe quite …
Week 5 of my challenge was more challenging with not so many animals to choose from! Thank you to those who gave me suggestions. I decided an elephant would look quite good on a decanter, with his trunk reaching around the neck. Getting the colour correct and solid enough took quite a few layers of …
Hi, if this is your first visit to my blog welcome to my alphabet challenge. You’ve probably guessed this week is letter C. I love cats, my avatar being one of course! However this challenge is about painting something new, so I chose a camel and a crab. One crab became two on a candle …
Hope you’re all enjoying some sun. We’re having a week of wall to wall sunshine in Devon in the UK and the heat to go with it. I’m enjoying the sun but over 25 degrees C is a bit hot for me, although it’s a great improvement on the cold and rain! I had my …
